Content Designer Contracts in England

Content Designer
UK > England

The median Content Designer daily rate in England is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 525 635
Rank change year-on-year +40 +110 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Content Designer 56 122 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.27% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 100 115
10th Percentile £325 £328 £339
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +6.94% +5.88%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £513
90th Percentile £538 £562 £586
UK median daily rate £425 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -12.01% +7.33% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.30
25th Percentile - £36.25 £27.63
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.29% +65.85%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £39.13
90th Percentile - - £40.70
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year - +10.29% +65.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,037 45,024 67,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.58% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,551 32,010 48,394
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.79% +7.05%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,522 1,314 1,828
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +93.05% +8.42%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.01 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%

Content Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Content Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Content Designer in England.

Daily rate trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Content Designer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Content Designer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Content Designer in England

Content Designer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Designer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +45 34 £425 -12.82% 3
North of England +19 19 £413 -7.04% 1
North East - 8 - - 1
Yorkshire +14 6 £425 -15.00%
North West +7 5 £350 -12.50%
Midlands +14 1 - -
South West +2 1 - - 1
West Midlands 0 1 - -
Content Designer
UK

Content Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Content Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Content Designer in the job title.

1 20 (35.71%) User Experience
2 14 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 12 (21.43%) Accessibility
3 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (21.43%) Content Management
4 11 (19.64%) CMS
4 11 (19.64%) Agile
4 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
4 11 (19.64%) UX Design
4 11 (19.64%) Content Strategy
5 8 (14.29%) User Research
5 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 8 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (12.50%) SEO
7 6 (10.71%) Publishing
7 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
7 6 (10.71%) Information Architecture
7 6 (10.71%) Figma
7 6 (10.71%) Prototyping
8 5 (8.93%) Design Thinking
8 5 (8.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (8.93%) Service Design
8 5 (8.93%) Finance
8 5 (8.93%) Legal
9 4 (7.14%) Adobe
9 4 (7.14%) Web Application Development
9 4 (7.14%) Analytics
9 4 (7.14%) Systems Thinking
9 4 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
10 3 (5.36%) Content Writing

Content Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (19.64%) CMS
2 2 (3.57%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (5.36%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.57%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.79%) InDesign
3 1 (1.79%) InVision
3 1 (1.79%) Marvel
3 1 (1.79%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Figma
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.57%) Miro
3 1 (1.79%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Maven
General
1 14 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Publishing
4 5 (8.93%) Finance
4 5 (8.93%) Legal
5 3 (5.36%) Banking
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) Local Government
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.57%) Blog
2 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.57%) Photography
2 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.57%) Social Media
2 2 (3.57%) Taxonomies
2 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.79%) Animation
3 1 (1.79%) Handset
3 1 (1.79%) NHS
3 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) User Experience
2 12 (21.43%) Content Management
2 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (19.64%) Agile
3 11 (19.64%) Content Strategy
3 11 (19.64%) UX Design
4 8 (14.29%) User Research
5 7 (12.50%) SEO
6 6 (10.71%) Information Architecture
6 6 (10.71%) Prototyping
7 5 (8.93%) Design Thinking
7 5 (8.93%) Service Design
7 5 (8.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (7.14%) Analytics
8 4 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
8 4 (7.14%) Systems Thinking
8 4 (7.14%) Web Application Development
9 3 (5.36%) Content Writing
9 3 (5.36%) Copywriting
9 3 (5.36%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) WCAG
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Adobe
2 2 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media